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In lugnet.ambassadors, Jean-Marc Nimal wrote:
> Straight from Steve Witt, the list of Cycle 7 ambassadors - congrats to all!
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> Announcing the members of the LEGO Ambassadors for Cycle 7
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> This was a great year for nominations for the LEGO Ambassador Program. We
> received a total of 86 nominations and settled on 45 members who will be
> participating for the coming year.
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> The new cycle represents 27 different nationalities and 50 different groups
> across the globe. Please congratulate the Cycle 7 LEGO Ambassadors.
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> The following list gives the name of the Ambassador, what group(s) they
> represent, and what country they live in.
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> SNIP!
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> Congratulations to the LEGO Ambassador Group for Cycle 7!!!
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> Steve Witt
> LEGO Ambassador Lead
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> Tormod, Jan, Jim & Phil
> LEGO Community Team
Congratulations to all that were selected! It looks like we have a great and
very diverse group of people. I am sure that they will all do a great job
representing the community and I am very interested to see what they can
accomplish over the next year.
I find it interesting, however, that we have nobody representing LUGNET. Was anyone even nominated? I know there was a thread on here regarding ambassador nominations, but I don't think it ever gathered any steam. Not to beat a dead horse...but is this another sign that LUGNET is dying?
-Dave
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Straight from Steve Witt, the list of Cycle 7 ambassadors - congrats to all!
Announcing the members of the LEGO Ambassadors for Cycle 7
This was a great year for nominations for the LEGO Ambassador Program. We
received a total of 86 nominations and settled on 45 members who will be
participating for the coming year.
The new cycle represents 27 different nationalities and 50 different groups
across the globe. Please congratulate the Cycle 7 LEGO Ambassadors.
The following list gives the name of the Ambassador, what group(s) they
represent, and what country they live in.
Sebastion Arts – De Bouwsteen – The Netherlands
Sue Ann Barber – MUGs – Australia
Patrick Begin – QueLUG – Canada
Heiner Berg – MBFR – Germany
Norbert Black – ParLUGment – Canada
Pitsanu Boonyarit – Thai Brick Club – Thailand
Andrew Bulthaupt – BZPower – USA
Pijarn Charoensri – T-LUG - Thailand
Marco Chiappa – ItLUG – Italy
Ben Coifman – Railbricks, ILTCO & COLTC – USA
Fernando Correia – PLUG – Portugal
Yvonne Doyle – Brickish Association – the United Kingdom
Ben Ellermann – Classic-Castle.com, GatewayLUG & ForbiddenCove.com – USA
Adrian Florea – RoLUG – Romania
David Furphy – CALG – Australia
Lluis Gibert – HispaLUG – Spain
Tim Gould – Brothers-Brick.com – Australia
Matija Grguric – Klub Kockice – Croatia
Philip Heinrich – Bricksinmotion.com – USA
Tom Jacobs – Classic-Pirates.com – Belgium
Tsang Yiu Keung – HKLUG – Hong Kong
Sung-Wan Kim – BrickInside – South Korea
Christian Krutzfeldt – 1000Steine – Germany
Tuomas Kukkamaa – Palikkatakomo – Finland
John Langrish – VicLUG – Canada
Igor Makarov – DoubleBrick & Phantoms – Russia
Lino Martins – LUGNUTS & SeaLUG – USA
Matija Puzar – Brikkelauget – Norway
Don Reitz – FBTB.net – USA
Wagner Cavalli – LUG Brasil – Brazil
Harald Roossien – LowLUG – The Netherlands
Dan Rubin – Classic-Space.com – USA
Kazuyoshi Saito – AFOL Japan – Japan
Svend Erik Saksun – Byggepladen – Denmark
Verena Schaden – LCOe – Austria
James Shields – Brick.IE – Ireland
Josephine Shih – TWLUG – Taiwan
Mikael Sjostedt – Eurobricks & SweLUG – Sweden
Pedro Silva – Comunidade 0937 – Portugal
Ludo Soete – BeLUG – Belgium
Stacy Sterling – MOCpages & TwinLUG – USA
Saso Tomat – Slobricks – Slovenia
Jenn Wagner – BrickLink – Canada
Marcin Witkiewicz – LugPol – Poland
Cagri Yuz – TurkLUG – Turkey
Congratulations to the LEGO Ambassador Group for Cycle 7!!!
Steve Witt
LEGO Ambassador Lead
Tormod, Jan, Jim & Phil
LEGO Community Team
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Abner Finley wrote:
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Indianapolis, IN
April 6, 2009
Indianapolis Museum Exhibits LEGO: Castle Adventure
Hear ye, hear ye, calling builders of all ages... join The Children’s Museum
of Indianapolis as they debut the opening of LEGO Castle Adventure. The new
traveling museum exhibit begins at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and
will visit 12 major markets in North America through 2013, reaching more than
2 million children and families.
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Can we get a list of proposed dates and locations so hte LUGs can start working
on partnering plans with the local hosting venues?
Paul Sinasohn
BAYLUG
LUGNET #115
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To all:
I made a Lego Marble Run - made entirely out of Legos (acutally my
children and I did). You can view the results here:
search Youtube for:
"Lego - Marble Run - 100% Lego - Final - Wistuk"
or try this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRTnFnTA0zQ
Nothing was cut, all peices can be reused and are available anywhere. The run is
highly flexible, easy to build and expand on.
I would be very happy to answer any questions you may have, as a ton of thought
has gone into this and I would love to share how it is done. It would have been
larger, but my wife started to complain.
Bart Wistuk
b5612@optonline.net
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Chris Marx wrote:
(Last things first here...)
> So what do you think LUGNET? Is there any interest out there for
> this kind of thing from TLG, or am I all alone out here?
Given the the rise of the GBCs has been one of the most amazing things I've seen
in the AFoL community, I'd say you're far from alone. I'd love to see TLG come
out with some LEGO-based marble runs (or rolling ball sculptures, or any of the
numerous other names). I'm not sure why they've not done it already. With the PF
motors, there's a system to power lifts. Just package it up. They even have a
ready-made design study in the numerous GBC modules that are out there.
> 1. LEGO parts can be used to build almost anything imaginable.
> If we want to build ball tracks with LEGO it can certainly be
> done... That being said, specialized parts would be a huge
> advantage.
Also a huge (cost) disadvantage. Remember LEGO has tried to reduce the parts
pallet, so anything that expands it needs to really prove its worth. And since
it's quite possible to build GBCs/RBSs out of the currently existing LEGO parts,
I'm not sure I see a strong reason for expanding. The most difficult part is
building a reliable lift, and even that can certainly be done without new molds.
> 3. We know that there is some market for this type of toy.
That actually what puzzles me - there seems to be a strong market for this sort
of set, and it's one exploited by many of LEGOs direct competitors. Do they just
not wish to compete there?
> ...have special pieces to allow for the creation of custom shaped
> track geometries. I'm imagining some kind of bracket that would
> hold two rails for the marbles to run on, with the rails being made
> out of those hard plastic tubes that came with some of the technic
> sets.
It might be tough to join those very thin tubes with supports in a strong enough
way. The larger diameter "ribbed" tubing works quite well in this regard, with
normal parts (cross-blocks and similar) making for adjustable spaced brackets.
Would I buy these sorts of sets? Probably in a heartbeat, and I'll bet we could
sell them out anywhere a group GBC is displayed. The single most common question
being "where can I buy this?". 'Course, we've seen how well this sort of
argument worked for 9V trains...
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Brian Davis
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